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Recent data also suggest that focusing only on mortality from conditions in which causal relationships have been established underestimates smoking-related mortality because an additional 17% of excess smoking-related mortality is associated with causes n

While the largest proportion of deaths associated with smoking were for cancers of the lung, bronchus, trachea and larynx, about half of fatalities from tumors of the oral cavity, esophagus and bladder were also tied to cigarettes...estimated that out of

About half of U.S. deaths caused by certain cancers -- including lung, colon and pancreatic tumors -- can be attributed to smoking, a new American Cancer Society study estimates. In 2011, nearly half of the almost 346,000 deaths from 12 cancers in people

told a Florida appeals court Tuesday that it should reverse a nearly $2.6 million jury award for a smoker's widow, saying a previous settlement she entered into with Verizon Communications ... barred her claims against them..."agreed not to sue any other

New European Food Safety Authority study reveals acrylamide (AA) - formed when foods are cooked at high temperature – is a cancer risk 51% of all AA exposure for children comes from chips, roast potatoes and croquettes

So we want a one-stop shop for cancer treatment in our city, but are wringing our hands about paying for it? Then jack up the lawsuit against tobacco companies to $20 billion and use that money to fund it

How much cigarette smoking causes lung cancer? Turns out that a pack a day for five years is the critical tipping point where smokers are twice as likely as non-smokers to get lung, throat and larynx cancers. This precedent-setting calculation figured p

Stress-induced tobacco consumption and youngsters taking up smoking and chewing tobacco are among the major reasons why 27% of the city's population is at risk of developing oral cancer, revealed a study conducted by a Pune-based preventive healthcare org

We pooled data from five contemporary U.S. cohort studies including 421,378 men and 532,651 women... A substantial portion of the excess mortality among current smokers between 2000 and 2011 was due to associations with diseases that have not been formal